Update: Russian
news agency ITAR-TASS is reporting that the release of the virus
came after an "international drill" last month that was
held at Pirbright Laboratory, in which live virus was used. Real
attacks are always shadowed by drills to provide culpable deniability.

The strain of foot and mouth disease that has put
Britain on high alert has been identified as originating from a
government laboratory which is shared with an American pharmaceutical
company, mirroring the deadly outbreak of 2001 and potentially signaling
a new wave of agraterrorism intended to cripple the farming community.

New Prime Minister Gordon Brown has chaired two Cobra
emergency meetings and farmers nationwide have been ordered to halt
movements of all livestock in response to the situation after after
foot-and-mouth was confirmed at Wolford farm, near Guildford, on
Friday night.

As was the case in 2001, when a vial of foot and mouth
virus that was "stolen" from a government bio-weapons
laboratory caused untold misery for thousands of farmers and devastated
the industry, the origin of the latest outbreak traces directly
back to a government research facility.

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The strain in infected cattle is identical
to that used for vaccines at the Institute for Animal Health at
Pirbright, three miles from the farm," reports
the BBC.

The strain was used in a vaccine batch manufactured on 16 July
by a private pharmaceutical company Merial Animal Health.

The firm shares Pirbright with the government's Institute for
Animal Health (IAH), which conducts research into foot-and-mouth
and where the strain is also present.

Merial Animal Health is an American pharmaceutical
company that manufactures foot and mouth vaccines containing live
virus and is already
being blamed as "responsible for the foot and mouth outbreak
in Britain" by some newspapers.

Whether the culprits are the pharmaceutical company
or the government research lab, serious questions need to be asked
about why routine levels of bio-security were not followed and how
the virus managed to escape. Press speculation that the virus became
airborne and got out through the air ducts doesn't comport with
the basic composition of vaccines and how they would normally be
stored.

Off
limits: Six years ago, Tony Blair made most of the British countryside
inaccessible as the rural areas were turned into giant quarantine
zones.

For those who doubt the veracity of a British government
plot to once again eviscerate the livelihoods of farmers (routinely
the biggest power block opposing the Labour government) in an act
of agraterrorism, they should carefully consider what happened in
2001. The
Sunday Express reported that the foot and mouth virus was released
deliberately out of Porton Down bio-weapons facility and could have
possibly been the source of the outbreak two months later.

The disease spread like wildfire throughout the country
as many accused the government of not doing nearly enough to contain
it and the spring of 2001 in England was characterized by apocalyptic
images of burning pyres dotted all over the countryside as over
four million animals were slaughtered.

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Coupled with reports of the government making inquiries
to timber merchants and sign makers (before closing public footpaths),
it is inconceivable that an animal rights activist, as we are led
to believe, could have penetrated a level 4 bio-weapons facility
that also houses anthrax and ebola and is protected
by armed guards of the Ministry of Defence Police and the Military
Provost Guard Service. The individual who stole the vial must have
had full security clearance to enter the facility. Why would an
animal rights activist release a virus that would kill four million
animals?

Patricia Doyle, PhD also
reported that Foot and Mouth exercises were being run by the
British government immediately before the outbreak was made public.

Experts are saying that the current outbreak is likely
to be localized and we can only hope it remains this way, because
Brown won't hesitate to turn huge swathes of the country into quarantine
zones as a dry run for martial law just as his predecessor Tony
Blair did six years ago.